Looking for a way to tell youtube to ALWAYS load my videos in the nice expanded view (Not Fullscreen, but the one where it's the width of the page and ACTUALLY VISIBLE on a decent sized monitor instead of this tiny thing.

^ Hitting the button (highlighted) will return your view to the small one.

I've found options to set what quality to try to view, im already set to the highest. I don't care if it starts @ 240p, as long as the viewport is wide. Youtube used to remember this setting when it first came out, but it doesn't now and I'm going crazy.